It sucks when you're caught between wanting unlimited authoritarian power and virtue signaling your support of aNtiRaCisM.

What a garbage notion. Without even talking about how stupid and wrong it is to weaponize taxes in a system of medical apartheid, EJ is here to point out how this would disproportionately tax minority communities:

Oops. I bet Ian (who is a senior correspondent for Vox) didn't think about that factor in his totalitarian brain exercise.

From the Kaiser Family Foundation:

As of July 19, less than half of Black and Hispanic people have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in the vast majority of states reporting data.

And:

Overall, across these 40 states, the percent of White people who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose (48%) was roughly 1.3 times higher than the rate for Black people (36%) and 1.2 times higher than the rate for Hispanic people (41%) as of July 19, 2021.

Why do you want to tax black people, Ian???

It's hard to be woke these days!

I'll leave you with this: